CFP

           CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
             IPAM Short Program on
Mathematical Challenges in Scientific Data Mining
              January 14-18, 2002
               UCLA, California
http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/sdm2002

Advances in technology have enabled us to collect data from
observations, simulations, and experiments at an ever-increasing pace.
To find useful information in this data, scientists are turning to data
mining techniques. With potential beneficiaries in areas such as
astronomy, remote sensing, physics, bio-informatics, medical imaging,
non-destructive evaluation, combinatorial chemistry, etc., the mining of
scientific data sets has become a field of active research. It is an
area rich in challenging mathematical problems, where the complexity and
size of the data is matched only by the diversity of applications.

Building on this growing interest in the field, we are organizing a week
long short-program at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
(IPAM) at UCLA during January 14-18, 2002. Further details are available
at the web site, including a preliminary list of invited speakers.

Scientific Committee:
Chandrika Kamath (CASC, LLNL)
Padhraic Smyth (CS, UC Irvine)
B.S. Manjunath (ECE, UC Santa Barbara)
Ananth Grama (CS, Purdue)

Contributed Presentations:
Contributed presentations (talks and posters) are invited for original
work related to the theme of the short program as outlined on the web
page. Submissions that are not related to mathematical challenges in the
mining of science and engineering data will not be considered.
Submissions are to be in the form of an extended abstract, consisting of
not more than 1 page (not including references). Students and recent
Ph.D.'s are strongly encouraged to apply.

Extended abstracts will be accepted in plain text only (no postscript or
pdf). They should be mailed to kamath2@llnl.gov. The deadline for
extended abstracts is August 31, 2001. Notification of acceptance will
be sent out on October 1, 2001.